It's good news for aurora chasers as peak auroral activity occurs a few years after solar maximum, according to Brekke. This ...

The "Roundtable with Shaw Laureates – Future of Science: Breakthroughs and Impacts", presented jointly by The Shaw Prize ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...

For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...

Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, ...

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

Rocks returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission suggest volcanic activity just 2.8 billion years ago but lack telltale heat-generating elements.

Researchers are developing atomically precise memristors for advanced neuromorphic computing systems. The University of ...

Winners of the awards see top science and maths talent continuing to emerge from Chinese universities US-based astronomer ...

After over a decade of planning, Lowell Observatory’s new state-of-the-art discovery center is opening its doors this ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of ...

The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're ...